Zaha Hadid has unveiled a few days ago his project for the international artistic and cultural center of Changsha in China. A futuristic architecture for a project where the functions of the buildings fit together.
The architect touches everything, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2004, Zaha Hadid unveiled there is little a mammoth project that began to sprout last October in Changsha, a city of seven million people in southern China. Curves, knots of concrete, three buildings connected by bridges or walks creating, in the words of the architect, an urban experience. A little futuristic.
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All-in-One
The international artistic and cultural center of Changsha is an all-in-one to mark the power of the city and its cultural influence. There is a theater of 1,800 seats whose mission is to host the biggest shows. Bars, restaurants, private spaces included. Nerve center of the whole, it is the project and is in the heart of attention. Especially for the purest sound.
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The second area to be served is a contemporary art museum with many exhibition spaces organized around a central atrium with organic curves. The building will also include an outdoor space, taking advantage of the unique location of the site, allowing the outdoor exhibition of sculptures and other creations not fearing the weather.
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Of the three buildings, this is probably the least impressive, but still. This "little theater" or multipurpose room will have 500 seats and will organize cultural events or medium scale banquets, corporate or other seminars.
Zaha Hadid: symbiotic architecture
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Although they are physically separated, the proposed agency Zaha Hadid architecture attempts to reconcile and even nest the various functions / opening hours of the three structures to allow urban and cultural experience / 24 24 Example the theater (and catering) opens at a time when the museum closes, while the last building will be open day and night.
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To wait for the completion of this work. Or watch the video presentation of the project.